HAMPTON 


I EFFICIENCY  and  service  are  the  funda- 
' mental  principles  of  the  great  educational 
work  for  the  Negro  and  Indian,  started  by 
General  Samuel  Chapman  Armstrong  in  1868 
on  the  shores  of  Hampton  Roads  near  Old 
Point  Comfort. 

Hampton  Institute  has  sent  out  over  10,000 
graduates  and  ex-students  with  a knowledge  of 
agriculture,  trades,  business,  and  the  principles 
of  teaching,  which  has  enabled  them  to  support 
themselves  and  become  leaders  in  their  commu- 
nities. 

The  farm-demonstration  movement,  em- 
ploying last  year  26  farm-demonstration  agents 
responsible  for  26  counties  of  Virginia,  origi- 
nated at  Hampton. 

Seventeen  of  these  twenty-six  men  were 
trained  at  Hampton. 

There  were,  in  1918,  sixty-two  Negro 
women  working  in  the  rural  districts  of  Virginia 
as  county  supervising  teachers  of  planting,  can- 
ning, and  home  economics. 

Fifty-seven  of  these  sixty-two  Negro  super- 
visors are  Hampton  trained. 

Last  year,  through  the  efforts  of  these 
supervisors  and  the  350,000  members  of  the 
Negro  Organization  Society  of  Virginia,  headed 
by  a Hampton  graduate,  over  500,000  cans  of 
vegetables  and  fruits  were  put  up  by  the  colored 
people. 


The  General  Education  Board  paid  the  travel- 
ing expenses  to  the  Hampton  Summer  School 
of  fifteen  or  more  colored  teachers  from  each  of 
the  Southern  States,  with  one  exception. 

These  colored  teachers  were  selected  by  the 
white  state  agents,  and  last  summer  200  were 
given  at  Hampton  an  intensive  course  to  fit  them 
for  the  County  Training  Schools  of  the  South. 

A Red  Cross  Home  Service  Course  was 
given  free  of  charge  to  over  123  colored  stu- 
dents in  the  Summer  School. 

Do  You  Know 

rPHAT  there  are  704  Hampton  men  in  the 

National  Service? 

That  33  enlisted  from  Hampton  in  one  day 
in  the  317th  Engineers,  the  first  regiment  of 
colored  engineers  in  this  country  ? 

That  two  months  after  enlistment  not  one 
of  these  33  men  remained  a private? 

That  there  are  9 Hampton  men  among  the 
commissioned  officers  of  the  “ Buffaloes,  ” the 
367th  colored  infantry? 

That  our  Students’  Army  Training  Corps 
was  commissioned  to  turn  out,  in  from  two  to 
eight  months’  courses,  2200  mechanics  for  voca- 
tional army  units  ? 

That  Hampton  has  trained  about  1000 
soldiers  in  the  past  six  months  ? 


HAMPTON  MEN'S 
THE  FIRST  REGIMENT  OF  CO  |K 


“THE  HAMPTON  SPIRIT” 

Letters  from  Hampton  Men  in  the  Service 

U T realize  that  I am  only  doing  my  duty  by 
trying  to  carry  out  the  teachings  of 
Hampton  and  its  founder,  General  Armstrong  ; 
that  is,  ‘ Put  God  and  Country  first;  ourselves 
afterward.  ’ ” 


“ When  I first  came  to  camp  no  one  ever 
thought  of  saying  grace  or  singing  it  before 
meals.  About  Christmas  some  Hampton  men 
started  singing  grace,  it  has  ever  since  been 
continued,  and  this  evening  returning  to  my 
quarters  from  mess  I heard  some  of  the  other 
companies  singing  Hampton’s  grace.  The 
Colonel  of  the  Regiment  is  much  pleased.  ” 


V HE  317th  ENGINEERS 

)U  D ENGINEERS  IN  THIS  COUNTRY 


ii  T>  ECENTLY  in  this  battalion  colored 
schools  were  organized  to  teach  illiter- 
ate men  the  common  English  branches.  The 
military  authorities  saw  fit  to  make  me  super- 
intendent of  these  schools,  and  at  present  I 
have  under  my  supervision  about  200  pupils 
and  4 teachers.  ” 

“ At  present  I am  serving  this  unit  in  the 
capacity  of  Supply  Sergeant,  having  300  men  to 
keep  properly  equipped.  ” 


“ At  Hampton  I learned  the  trade  of  car- 
pentry. I am  now  a corporal  in  the  317th  Engi- 
neers, and  I am  working  at  my  trade  with  a 
detail  of  25  men  under  me.  ” 


H /^NE  of  the  things  I learned  at  Hampton 
is  responsibility.  I have  charge  of  30 
men  on  a plumbing  detail  every  day.  My  duty 
is  to  instruct  these  men  as  best  I know.  ” 


“ The  training  furnished  me  at  Hampton 
has  proved  invaluable  to  me  in  the  work  among 
the  soldier  boys  who  come  to  my  building  from 
reveille  to  taps.  Without  the  allround  train- 
ing that  I received  I am  positive  that  often  I 
should  find  myself  handicapped  in  dealing  with 
the  many  problems  that  come  to  me  in  the 
course  of  a day.  The  more  I see  of  my  people 
as  they  come  from  the  towns  and  country  dis- 
tricts of  the  Sunny  South  the  more  am  I im- 
pressed that  the  Hampton  idea  of  education 
and  of  service  will  develop  the  redeeming  quali- 
ties and  the  saving  factors  of  the  race  of  which 
I am  a member.  No  effort  to  help  us  can  be 
too  great  and  no  sacrifice  can  be  too  large. 
God  grant  that  our  friends  in  the  North  and  in 
the  South  will  continue  in  their  efforts  to  make 
us  the  good  citizens  that  they  would  have  us  be. 
Their  time  and  money  given  for  such  education 
as  that  taught  at  Hampton  will  not  be  in  vain.” 
Y.  M.  C.  A.  Secretary 


THERE  are  over  1700  young  people  still  train- 
ing at  Hampton,  to  be  workers  and  leaders 
in  the  new  democracy. 

The  work  of  reconstruction  now  faces  us. 
Nearly  300,000  Negro  soldiers  will  return  from 
France.  Hampton  must  lead  in  the  work  of 
readjustment. 

To  do  so  it  must  raise  this  year  from  pri- 
vate subscription  : — 


Toward  Retirement  Fund  15  gifts  of 

$1000 

$15,000 

For  extension  work  in  Va.  30  gifts  of 

500 

15,000 

For  teachers’  salaries 

60  gifts  of 

250 

15,000 

For  teachers’  salaries 

150  gifts  of 

100 

15,000 

For  teachers’  salaries 

200  gifts  of 

75 

15,000 

For  teachers’  salaries 

300  gifts  of 

50* 

15,000 

For  upkeep  on  building 

s 600  gifts  of 

25 

15,000 

For  general  expenses 

1500  gifts  of 

10 

15,000 

For  general  expenses 

3000  gifts  of 

5 

15,000 

$135,000 

'Liberty  Bonds  are  equally  acceptable. 


Any  amount  you  may  care  to  contribute 
will  be  gratefully  received  by  James  E.  Gregg, 
Principal,  or  F.  K.  Rogers,  Treasurer,  Hamp- 
ton, Va. 


PRESS  OF  THE  HAMPTON  NORMAL 
AND  AGRICULTURAL  INSTITUTE 
HAMPTON,  VIRGINIA,  JAN.  1919 


